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07/20/12
NCShakes Holding Auditions for 2013 Shakespeare To Go Tour
The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (NCShakes) will hold auditions in September for the 2013 Shakespeare To Go tour, the company’s outreach and education program that performs and teaches at schools across North Carolina.
Auditions will be held Sept. 6 and 7 from 4-6 p.m. at NCShakes’ Spirit Center campus (807 W. Ward Avenue, High Point). To schedule an audition, please call NCShakes at 336-841-2273.
NCShakes seeks a non-equity, multi-racial touring company of six actors – three women and three men – plus an actor/company manager, who will perform a 60-minute production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a 45-minute version of Romeo and Juliet in repertory. The company is looking for actors who are especially versatile, with a strong Shakespeare background. Experience in stage combat, physical comedy and teaching will be helpful.
One production will tour North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia middle- and high schools with some public and university performances. The other production will be geared to elementary school audiences.
Actor contracts will run 17 weeks, from January through May 2013. Salaries are $275 per week. Actors residing outside the Triad will receive housing in High Point. All actors will receive a per diem for food and hotel for overnight tour stops.
For the audition actors should prepare two one- to two-minute contrasting Shakespeare monologues. NCShakes requires an 8x10 headshot and detailed resume at the time of the audition.
NCShakes will also hold auditions for Shakespeare To Go at the SETC Fall Professional Conference Auditions on Sept. 9 and 10 in Atlanta.
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